Data files and programs to replicate Card-Ransom paper


I. Raw Salary and Pension Data in checks.zip
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The base data file is checks.sas7bdat
which has salary data and pension data for
the largest possible sample.  (see content.lst
included in CR-replication.zip for contents of
the file)

This is compressed into the zip archive "checks"



II. All remaining files are in  CR-replication.zip
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1. table2.sas - creates table 2 of paper, using checks.sas7bdat

2. cru3.sas reads in "checks.sas7bdat 
data file, selects sample, and creates a 'long' file
with person-year observations, called cru.sas7bdat
(cru.sas7bdat not included here)

3. cru.sas7bdat is converted to stata file cru.dta
which is included in CR-replication.zip
(for conversion I used sas2stata, a unix utility)

4. All remaining tables use the following
   stata do files: 
    table3-2lim.do  for table 3
    table4-2lim.do  for table 4
    table5.do  for table 5 models
    table5-stats.do for summary stats in table 5
    appt1-2lim.do for models in appendix table 1.


Questions can be directed to David Card
card@econ.berkeley.edu
